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tonight. stay with fox news channel. i'm off tomorrow night. here's huck bee. obama administration pushes for military budget cut. >> we chose further reductions in troop strength and force structure in every military service. >> will our shrinking military be ready to fight off future attacks? and harry reid says obamacare nightmare stories are made up lies. >> there's plenty of horror stories being told. those tales turned out to be just that, tales. >> try telling that to a woman who lost coverage for her cancer medication. plus, arizona's governor vetoed the state's religious
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freedom bill. >> i believe that senate bill 1062 has the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve. >> tonight, the president of the group that pushed for the bill responds. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >> thank you. thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. amazing developments this week with the world super powers and their military forces. on saturday, russia's parliament approved president vladimir putin's request to use military force in ukraine, a country on the brink of civil war after weeks of unrest between pro-russian easterners and the opposition, which is calling for freedom and democracy. putin's move came just hours after president obama made this statement to reporters.
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>> just days after the world came to russia for the olympic games, it would invite the condemnation of nations around the world, and indeed, the united states will stand with the international community in affirming there will be costs for military intervention in ukraine. >> critics say the president's warning to russia was weak. faush news has learned from a senior u.s. official that the pentagon has not preparing any military contingencies for ukraine. meanwhile, as putin flexes russia's military muscle, the obama administration this week is making proposals that would shrink our military. and when chuck hagel was nominated to be secretary of defense, i strongly objected based on his record as a senator, and some of his comments about our allies in the middle east that absolutely scared the living daylights out of me. my fears, they were not unfounded. as this week hagel proudly announced his proposal to further gut the military readiness of our nation by
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drastic troop reductions and cuts to our military families with housing, food, and family health care. for the past 100 years, presidents and our nation's top warriors have warned of putting our guard down. both democrat and republican presidents, from calvin coolidge to franklin roosevelt, to harry truman, to eisenhower, to reagan, reminded us that in a dangerous world, readiness to fight is the foundation of our freedom. the best military minds in our nation's history, from mcarthur to omar bradley to david petraeus, warned of lulling ourselves into the stupid stupor of thinking the world would be safer and more peaceful if we just holsterred our guns and sheathed our swords. it's folly to think such nonsense. the best way to preserve freedom, keep the peace and protect our security is to have a military that is so overwhelmingly powerful that no
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one on earth would want to poke it into action. frankly, i don't give a rat's rear if punk nations like north korea our bully nations like iran like us. matters not at all to me. i want them to fear us. i want them to know that if they should so much as raise their hands against up, they would have to pick that hand off the ground in the next instant. yet here we go again. fooling ourselves into protecting we can protect ourselves on the cheap and asking a shrinking nub of military volunteers to take on a growing number of assignments. i'm just back from 11 days in israel where every 18-year-old male gives his country three years of military service. every 18-year-old female gives her country two years of mandatory military service. after that, they have to serve 20 years as a reservist, and for the rest of their lives, they have to be ready to take up arms
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to fight to the last drop of blood to keep from enduring another holocaust. as ken allard points out, less than 1% of americans will even serve in the military. we're willing to defend our nation with what he calls opk -- other people's kids. instead of recruiting or even drafting enough people to staff our readiness, we send a dwindling number of willing volunteers to second and third and even fourth deployments and we treat the national guard and reservists as if they're full time. i saw some of the national guard troops under my command in arkansas called up for three or more overseas deployments. when we do that, we increase the likelihood of them being killed or disabled for life, not to mention the mental illnesses they will return with for such long stints of combat. when more of our soldiers commit suicide than are killed by the taliban, it's time to use our
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brains instead of asking other people's kids to get theirs destroyed. three fourth of the department of defense budget is for hardware, bureaucracy and contractors. and if we need to cut something, the last thing we ought to cut is the pay and benefits for the uniformed personnel getting shot at. cut the desk jockeys. cut the lucrative contracts that make pals of the politicians rich. even cut the payouts to able bodied people who take a government check but have never offered anything back in return. and if we have to give them a check, give them a uniform to go with it. [ applause ] in the meantime, protecting our nation is not just the business of the army, air force, navy, marines, and coast guard. it's all our business. and we ought to ground air force one before we ground the fighter squadron.
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and we ought to end subsidies for congressional pensions before we cut pay to the soldiers. you see, i want a military so ominous that not even a half baked loon like kim jong-un would dare even provoke it. and if it takes everybody's kids to staff it, well, then sobeit. joining me to talk about the impact that the proposed cuts are going to have on the men and women of our armed forces, we have three true american heroes. former u.s. deputy under secretary of defense, one of the original members of the army's delta force who also commanded the green bury, lieutenant jerry boykin. former commander officer of the "uss cole", and with 36 years of service, assistant vice chief of staff, lieutenant general richard newton iii.
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general boykin, i'm going to start with you and let's get to the heart of a hot conflict going on in our world right now. this week, chuck hagel says we're going to make significant cuts. putin ramped up and sends several airplanes, eight of them just this past week. thousands of russian soldiers, to crimea. is there a disconnect between what we're doing and what's happening in the rest of the world? >> well, governor, i think it's very important that we understand that we can cut the defense department, but that has to be done after a careful analysis of who we're going to be up against in the future and an assessment of what risk we're willing to take. i think what we see going on in the ukraine is a good example that the world is not stable, that there are still some very powerful enemies out there, and this process that i just talked about has not been used. this is about politics and out of control spending. >> commander, you were in charge
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of the uss cole when it was attacked by al qaeda, so terrorism is something you have seen up close and personal. but when you hear that america will be reducing its overall budget, i think the general is right. there are certainly ways things could be cut, made more efficient, but are we doing the right thing at the right time with the right amounts toward the right cuts? >> governor, i don't believe so. right now, you have to a nation must always maintain both the capability and the credibility to face any threats that may jeopardize our national security interests around the world. and right now, while we could probably be more efficient in how our capabilities and what we do with them in order to bring it down more within the budget, nonetheless, we have to look at the credibility that the president is using. we don't have the economic power we once had. we don't have the military power that we once had. so we need to be wiser and more careful and more astute in how
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we employ those tools in order to safeguard our security interests. decreasing a defense budget right now is not the way to do it. we don't even have a national security or a national military strategy done in the last three to four years. therefore, we don't have a baseline by which we can even determine what our troop force structure should be and how we should be exercising it. >> general newton, i think most of us would look at the overall picture of the defense budget and say there's got to be ways. there's fraud, abuse, duplication. as a person who served many years in the air force, what is the strategic value of making cuts, and if we make some, where should they be made and where should we be spending more money rather than less money? >> well, first, let me say it remains an uncertain world out there. adversaries or potential adversaries get a vote in terms of where to engage, when, and under certain conditions, of
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course, so we need to maintain readiness. what i would advocate for is that we make sure that we still are able to send our sons and daughters of our volunteers, as you said at the top of the comments, that they go into any fight, not be a fair fight, but a fight where they go in knowing they're going to be ready to win 9-0, so the outcome is shaped before we engage. one more thing, if i may add, by reduced defense budget, it does incur increased risk. it does incur less deterrence abroad, specifically. and in my view, and i think the view of the joint chiefs as well, is that also will increase, you know, or lessen the margin of error you want to incur in combat. >> i want to get all of you to stay put because when we come back, i want to get into, is america still a super power? if we are, are we losing that? if we are not a superpower, what does it take to get back to
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♪ ♪ >> we're back with our military panel. i want to get we're back with our military panel. i want to get all of you to weigh in on the fact that right now in the ukraine, it's a very hot spot. i'm not sure what, if anything, the u.s. can do. i'm not sure it can rally nato to take a stand. is it a problem that we don't have the military and even diplomatic clout that we once had? general newton, i'll start with you. >> well, again, as i mentioned,
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you know, the world is still -- there's an uncertain world in terms of challenges that can face any nation. from the united states air force, in fact, what we have endeavored for decades to be the world's best air force, are, and will continue to be. we control the skies, and that's what you pay the air force to do. but in terms of us being the world's superpower, i would not necessarily make us the world's policemen. i don't think we want to do that. we also want to make sure we deter aggression, that we dissuade foes who would want to perhaps do harm to our national security interests and to the american people, and also, one thing that's key in this is we want to make sure we assure allies and friend that the united states will be here, that we will provide the necessary military capabilities to go where this nation needs to to protect our own national security interests, and really, certainty, to protect the interests of the world. >> general boykin, are we doing
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that? are we giving our allies a sense that they can trust us, depend on us, and we're reliable if they're in trouble? >> no, governor. the answer is no. if you look at the fact that as soon as the current administration came into power, we canceled a treaty with the czech republic and poland that we had negotiated over a period of years to put missile defense systems in, these were nato allies, and we backed out of that for this so-called reset with russian. you look at south korea, japan, and especially israel. they do not see us as reliable allies. there's great questions in their minds as to whether we're going to be there if they need us. >> and commander, just to get your thoughts on the u.s. navy's readiness and preparation. are we at the place where as far as dominance of the seas, we really are in that position where we can answer any emergency anywhere in the world with our naval forces, aircraft
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carriers, and other navy ships? >> no, governor, we're not. because we have a military and a navy today that no longer has the ships available to be forward deployed and in position to react to crises around the world. we went from the top where we were at 15 carrier battle groups at the height of the reagan administration it now we're down to nine aircraft carrier battle groups with one under construction. the navy, if they had their way, would decommission two more aircraft carriers to fit within a perceived budget line which takes away the flexibility of the nation to respond to crises, react, and do what is necessary. you have to have that forward presence to act as the deterrent that the generals have mentioned. >> the chinese are building a lot more ships than we are. does that give you, as a navy commander, does that give you a little bit of concern, that they're vastly outnumbering us in terms of the ships they've got at sea? >> it absolutely does.
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when you look at what we're dealing with today, there are a number of nations, especially the chinese, that are building aircraft carriers. they're beginning to get experienced with those at sea. they're expanding their navy's capabilities, and as other nations can rely less on the united states to be able to be there in a time of crisis, that creates instability around the world. it creates areas where other nations feel an obligation to not just stand up for their own defense, but then to begin totally without any consultation with allies, to work in a manner that could prove destabilizing to areas in the region. the actions by iran with their nuclear program because they don't feel we have the ability to respond in a matter to defend the nation, these are destabilizers that the united states must be able to step forward and react to. >> i only have about a minute so i'm going to give each of you
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about a third of that. if you could, name one thing you think we ought to eliminate out of the defense budget, but if you had a priority to where we should put the money where we're not right now, where would be go? >> the proposal that certainly the joint chiefs and secretary hagel made with regard to the 18 aircraft and the u-2, for instance, our aging systems, are 40 years old. we need to modernize our force. i would put investment in certainly the f-35 stealth fo r fighter, the kc-46, peg sus, and also to continue to invest in the long range bomber. also needed investment in our space capabilities as well as cyber. particularly cyber network defense as well. >> general boykin, where would you cut, where would you focus? >> get rid of all the programs that the military did not want that was forced on them by the congress. and put your money in the people.
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quality people. pay them well, treat them right, and they'll never let you down. [ applause ] >> i don't think anybody can argue with that at all. commander, final word. >> i think the biggest thing we need to do is insure that the aircraft carriers get refueled, that we maintain the 9 if not 10 aircraft carriers we have, take the combat ship, which has been proven not to execute its mission, stop that program immediately and eliminate it and start building other ships, including a next generation destroyer and frigate capable to work around the world to have the sea presence to safeguard our economic lifelines. >> i want to thank all of you. i wish congress were listening to you and following the advice. i think it's quite sound. thank you very much for joining us. well, harry reid says all the horror stories about obamacare are a bunch of lies. coming up, proof that they're not lies. we'll be right back.
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welcome to what's next. comcast nbcuniversal. earlier this week senate majority earlier this week, senate majority leader harry reid said all the stories about how obamacare is negatively impacting americans are simply not true. >> there's plenty of horror stories being told, all of them are untrue. but in those tales turned out to be just that, tales. stories made up from whole cloth, lies. distorted by republicans to grab headlines or make political advertisements. >> well, senator reid, try telling that to my next guest. before obamacare kicked in last november, his mother had a policy that used to cover her cancer medication, but she
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doesn't have that anymore. steven blackwood joins me now. steven, a real pleasure to have you here. >> a real pleasure to be here, governor. >> steven, you wrote a remarkable story in the wall street journal talking about your family's story, how this had impacted your mom. then this week, harry reid makes this comment. i'm curious, let me start, is your mother a liar? >> you know, governor, it's bad enough to lose your health insurance and your cancer medication. but then to be told by the very people who put you in that situation that what's happening to you is not happening to you, it's the height of disgrace. senator -- i know these facts may not be convenient for the leader of the majority and the senate, but i will not have my mother thrown on the alter of his political dream. >> i think every american should be outraged that she essentially accused millions of americans who have lost their coverage, lost their access to the doctors that were treating them, to be treated as if somehow they were
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just making this stuff up. in the case of your mother, dieinosed with a very serious form of cancer, believed she had insurance. she's had it for 20 years, and then because of obamacare, had to be switched to a different policy. walk me through some of the challenges that as a family you faced in this transition from good coverage to not knowing whether her medication and her treatment would be covered at all. >> well, governor, the simple fact is that my mother was diagnosed with cancer in 2005. it's perhaps a lesser known cancer, but it's not that rare. about 100,000 people in the united states have that. sadly, it was a disease steve jobs died of just a few years s cross blue shield plan for 20 years without any breaks in coverage. her plan was canceled. she was notified directly by the insurer as a direct result of the aca. that was in november. she then went with millions of other americans onto to the
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healthcare.gov site, which wasn't working. those problems have been well documented. she then turned drktly to the insurers to find the plan that would conserve her, my dad, and three of their younger children. there are ten children in the family. in any case, she spent many, many hours on the phone because she wanted to make sure she was getting exactly what they needed. now, the problem was at that period, the details of those plans, what insurance companies call formularies were not available, even to inenrollment officers selling those plans. nonetheless, they assured her 100% once she met her hefty deductible, she would be covered, all of her treatments and medications at 100%. if you fast forward two months, she is then informed by then that they will not be covering the crucial medication that keeps her disease at bay. i think it's very important to stress here that this medication, which is
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administered at her oncologist's offices twice a month is not a rare, novel, or experimental treatment. it is the common standard of care for people with her disease. >> now, interestingly, your mother is not somebody who doesn't know how to navigate through the health care system. she helped run your father's medical practice. your father, her husband, is a medical doctor. she has worked in a medical office. she understands the jargon, the whole process, and yet it was virtually impossible for even a seasoned professional like her to work her through the morass of challenges she faced. >> you know, everything you say is true. she is a highly intelligent, competent, experienced in the old system, which to be true, had its own problems. you know, even after an op-ed in a national newspaper, another half a dozen hours on the telephone with my mother and humana, 2 two calls from me to the vice president of the company, she still is not getting covered the medication she needs.
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how could anyone hope reasonably to get the care they need in the current system? >> this is why it needs to continually be told. stev steven, i appreciate your story. i want to talk to your mom and dad one day because i think their story along with yours is a vital one and america needs to hear. thank you for joining us. great to have you here. real stories, real challenges people are facing. well, arizona's religious freedom bill was vetoed by republican governor jan brewer this week, but did you knethat president bill clinton signed the very same language into federal law 20 years ago. it was okay then. why not now? i'll ask the proponent of the arizona bill when we come back. then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagin how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 3years or mor so maybe we need to approach things dferently,
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a senior administration official says more than 6,000 russian troops are now in crimea. angela merkel putting forth a proposal aimed at getting a dialogue going between russia and ukraine. and john kerry traveling to yeah cra ukraine on tuesday. >> and another massive storm system making its way to the northeast tonight. this same storm drenched california and is now dumping snow and ice across the midwest. in the northeast, the i-95 corridor expected to see snow, sleet, and freezing rain up through tuesday. in d.c., the federal government already closing its offices on monday. thousands of flights across the country have been canceled due to snow. many more cancellations are expected. i'm kelly right. now back to huckabee. >> this weekend, hollywood's biggest names are going to gather for the academy awards. so we have sent huckabee correspondent ryan reese out to the red carpet for a preview. ryan, what's going on in
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llood? >> there's electricity in the air as celebrities and political figures assemble for the 86th oscars ceremony. >> political februalit figures, doing? >> they're nominating for some of the biggest awards, like frozen. >> i thought frozen was a cartoon. >> no, that's a documentary about the obamacare website. >> i enjoy the movie "gravity." i just wonder if you think that movie will win any of the awards this time. >> governor, i was disappointed with "gravity." i heard it was about a woman lost in space, and i was really hoping it was nancy pelosi. >> i'm going to leave that one alone. let me ask you this. what is itthere's some really ex traf gent set designs. take a look. >> wow, that looks like a scene maybe from the great gatsby.
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>> no. that's michelle obama's birthday party. >> one of the movies that has been talked about a lot this year is "american hustle." just curious, what do you think is going to happen with that mov movie? >> you mean if you can keep your health care plan if you like your health care plan? that was a great hustle, delivered by america's finest actor, president obama. y >> all right, ryan. we've got to get to real awards here. i just want to get your insightw who do you actually think is or going to win an oscar? >> well, for best animated feature, i'm going with toronto mayor rob ford.to and for best love scene, i'm going with president obama and the danish prime minister. i can see where you would land withyo that. all right, ryan, i'm going to have to stop it there. look, i don't really think you t
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know anything abo oscars. i think you're just making this stuff up. >> not true at all, governor.ill i know for a fact "captain phillips" will win best picture of the year. >> how could you know that? >> the nsa told me. >> that i can believe. ryan, thank you for joining us from the red carpet in hollywood. after intense pressure from progressive groups, governor jag brewer vetoed arizona's religious freedom bill. she said it could create more problems than it solves. you heard proponents say it discriminates against gays, but what you haven't heard is the bill contains the exact same language at the freedom act of 1993. it was addressed by a democrat, it was supported by jewish groups, even aclu. it passed unanimously in the d house and in the senate by a
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vote of 97-3 and was signed into law by president bill clinton eight months after it was introduc introduced. in 1999,no arizona passed a similar bill. this year, cathy suggested some changes in the law. that is what was vetoed. i have been amazed at the w this was a very relative, minor change to a bill that was noncontroversial in 1999, 1993, at the federal level. was noncontroversial up until this past week.or, why the controversy? >> well, in my view, governor, a very small minority was able to make hey out of it to make the bill about something it wasn't. and the veto was really for a bill that didn't exist. >> there were accusations this was going to bring back jim s crow. i lived through the jim crow d laws ofan the deep south where grew up. i couldn't find anything common to that at all in this bill.
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it was very minor language changes. so can you help our audience understand exactly what did thi bill do? >> senate bill 1062 simply clarified and updated arizona's religious freedom restoration act as we saw courts around thep country basically saying that the government, if the government wasn't a party to the lawsuit, then the religious freedom restoration act wouldn't apply. an individual or businessicate assert their religious freedom rights whether the government was a party to the lawsuit so it would help the little sisters oa the poor, the photographer, the wedding cake baker, those typesf of businesses where the government is trying to force them to forego their religious believes. >> it was not discriminatory, but if i was the owner of a j jewish delicatessen and was kosher and someone came in and said i want you to do my wedding and i want bacon wrapped shrimp
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andgo i said i didn't want to d that, i would be protected because the government wouldn't force me to do something against my conscience. >> that's right, americans and n arizonians should be free to live and work in their faith. >> stay with me. a when we come back, i want to si talk more about how this application would really work y and why it's so controversial and why it's so unnecessary and we'll tell you how you can linke up and read it for yourself. something i'm convinced very few people have done. people have done. we'll be right back. people have done. we'll be right back. she makes the whole team better. he's the kind of player that puts the puck, horsehide, bullet. right where it needs to be. coach calls it logistics. he's a great passer. dependable. a winning team has to have one. somebody you can count on. somebody like my dad. this is my dad. somebody like my mom. my grandfather. i'm very pround of him. her. them.
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we're back with cathi, president of the center for arizona policy. may of 2013, star transport in peoria, illinois, had a couple muslim truck drivers. they refused to deliver a truck load of alcohol. they weren't required to drink it, just deliver it as part of our truck driving policies. they were fired. they went to the company, sued, and won. and they had to be reaccommodated. here's my point. if it's the government policy to accommodate a muslim not to deliver a truck load of alcohol, what you were really asking for is there was a photographer or a catering, someone who would sell any item in the store to anybody, including a person who was gay, but they wouldn't necessarily participate in a same-sex wedding.
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is that basically what this bill would have protected them from? >> the bill, 1062 would have protected the photographer, the florist, from having to participate. it basically approving a same-sex commitment ceremony or wedding. or you take the pharmacy owner who doesn't want to distribute abortion medication, morning after pills. the nutshell was business owner, individual, should be able to live according to their faith and not have the government compel them. this is about government coercion and what the power of the law is going to be. simple clarification to our law. >> now, bluntly, you have been accused of a lot of stuff over the last week. are you homophobic? >> no. >> are you a hater? >> no. >> do you want to see people put out of business or destroyed or discriminated against? >> absolutely not. i have a great concern that we as americans have freedom to exercise ourreligious beliefs and we're not confined to the four walls of our church.
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that you have the freedom to do what our founders intended, to live out our convictions. >> this would be applicable to people who are christian, jewish, muslim, it would give them a right to say, look, i want to do business with everybody, but if there's something specific you ask me to to that violates my religious convictions, and the criteria was pretty tough even to establish it was part of your faith. >> exactly, and we even put additional safeguards in the bill because the way the laws operate, if you assert your religious belief, you still have to go to court and the court does a balancing test. the bill if anything was provided more safeguards so someone couldn't claim anything for their religious belief. it also would protect, for example, a photographer who didn't want to be hired by my organization because they didn't stand for the convictions we did. >> we're going to put on the screen a contact to my website,
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mikehuckabee.com. if you go there, you can look at the bills for yourself, read them, tell me what is controversial, because i have heard all this talk this week and i just want people to be confronted with the facts and truth. so look at the bill, read it for yourself, and then you decide. i think that's probably the most effective thing we could do. thank you very much for helping to clear this all up. >> thank you, governor. >> good to have you here. >> you have seen him perform his amazing sand art on the show in the past. joe joins us for his brand new sand routine. stay with us. ♪ thank my lucky stars to be living here today ♪ ♪ because the flag still stands for freedom ♪ ♪ and they can't take that away ♪ our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line, anytime, for $15 a month. low dues, great terms.
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y >> he is a former america's got talent contestant that has a brand new routine and a new book called "sam's story." please welcome joe castillo back to the show. ♪ ♪ i've seen trees of green red and blue ♪ ♪ i've seen them green for me and you ♪ ♪ and i think to myself what a wonderful world ♪
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♪ i've seen skies of blue and clouds of white ♪ the brightness of day ♪ darkness of night ♪ and i think to myself what a ♪
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♪ i have seen a rain bow so pretty in the sky ♪ ♪ as friends surely do ♪ ♪ say how do you do ♪ ♪ ♪ and i think to myself, ♪ and i think to myself what a wonderful world ♪ ♪ i think to myself ♪ what a wonderful world
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>> that is amazing. (applause) >> i have never ceased being in awe of your ability to turn nothing but sand into the most amazing pictures as you just did. i am thinking we started this show talking about conflict and war and we landed with this beautiful reminder that it is a wonderful world. >> it is. even though there's difficulties in the world, god has blessed us with a great place to live and a lot of good things going on. >> joe castillo. thank you very much. i will be back with closing thoughts after this. stay with us. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's
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everybody talks about the weather but no o >> mark twain says everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it. same could be said about tax reform. everyone talks about it but nobody does anything about it for good reason. virtually every piece puts on the table gets sliced to peopie for those who want to help reform but only want to help their own tax status. chairman david camp had the tax proposal this week that had conservatives and liberals all a fliter with criticism. the chairman's plan would simplify the tax code and make it so that 95 percent of taxpayers could be able to do a short form tax form. it would end some current deductions. most conservatives like the lower rates but not ending the deduction. some have condemned the plan for not having spending cuts. let's be fair, the ways a weigh and means committee doesn't
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handle spending the appropriations committee does that. dave camp's committee's responsibility isn't to decide how to spend the money just figure out how to get the money that he with spend. personally, i still prefer the fair tax that would eliminate the irs and impact this and punishment for our productivity and would collect taxes from our consumption instead of our work, investments and savings. until we can get there, i would support something instead of living with the current payoff of 70,000 pages of tax code that no one understands all of the time while others are talking about tax reform. at least dave camp is doing something about it. i would love to get rid of the horrible winter weather we have had this year but even more i would like to get rid of the irviirs and the criminal conduct with the tax code that chokes the life right out of our economy. that's it for now.
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this is mike huckabee from new york. good night, god bless and stay tuned for justice with judge jeanine. >> we will be joined by a lively studio audience. they will be analyzing the obama effect. in other words, how the president's policies brought this country to a tipping point. we begin with liberal constitutional professor jonathan turely who said it best on capitol hill on wednesday. >> the president has in fact exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a de stabilizing influence. the rate at which executive power is being concentrated in our system is accelerating. frankly, i am very

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